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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Governments have a duty to protect the human rights of their citizens, and that includes privacy. Innovation is not always a good thing - Think of it as a vector and not a scalar. Increasing the magnitude of innovation would be bad if the
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Euler was so successful and prolific that the list of discoveries named after him is huge . So big, in fact, that a great many things are named after the second person to discover them. He's one of - if not the - greatest mathemat
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
> GDPR does not apply to US citizens living in the US It does, actually. If the data controller is based in the EU then the GDPR applies regardless of where the data subject is.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
> I'm not aware of any law before GDPR that permitted this. Normally, you'd have to have a court case and do discovery. Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protec
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
This has been the case since long before the GDPR. The ability to make subject access requests was in the Data Protection Directive which was passed in 1995.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>Can I make requests for data generated during my time in the EU? Yes. If a data controller (or processor) is based in the EU then they must comply with the GDPR regardless of where you are/were. If a data controller (or processor
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>IANAL but no. The request must come from an EU resident, as per my understanding Article 3 (Territorial Scope) of the GDPR: > 1. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establ
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Right. And both are bad.
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Every test I've done (provided for free on the NHS, btw) has just been two red lines. The control line doesn't show up until the buffer solution has wicked along the test strip, so the verification is "does the line next to t
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
I'd argue the opposite - they are likely to be one, especially if they've run a successful campaign. Candidates and parties will canvass the electorate to identify who is (likely) to vote for who so they can put resources in to
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Unfortunately the launch is now no earlier than 24 December
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
The BBC (in collaboration with The Guardian and PA) created an RDF ontology[0] a few years ago for describing "Story lines" stories that can span multiple articles over time. That could be useful to use (or just take inspiration f
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
That true, but simion314 is still right that the law doesn't specifically target browsers.
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Web creator Tim Berners-Lee’s startup Inrupt raises $30M(techcrunch.com)
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>BT doesn't own our wires as such. OpenReach does (yes they were formally BT but spinned off). Openreach are a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT, they're not really independent.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Not roads, but there are plenty of bribes^H^H^H^H^H^H^H campaign contributions that come from Amazon.
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Mastodon Recap 2021 – Highlights of the year(blog.joinmastodon.org)
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
> And every time someone wants to join/leave you'd have a bunch of paperwork to handle. I don't know about you, but I'd hardly call updating a membership list held by the organisation itself "a bunch of paperwork
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
You don't need a DAO for that. A basic unincorporated association would be enough. Perhaps a (limited liability) company if you wanted the entity to have legal personality.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Nothing, literally nothing , you described there needs a DAO to happen. In fact replace the string "DAO" with "corporation" and everything still makes perfect sense - because what you are describing is a common-or-gar
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
don't forget (c) cashing out and running away before it all falls apart so somebody else is left holding the bag.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
You could say that the distributed system of politics has bad regulation. The regulations constrain the system in such a way to produce two huge opposing parties, and encourage corruption of their members. Regulations like the voting system
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Copyright has always been a means of control by publishers , stretching right back to mid 1600s. The specific wording of the US constitution was (is?) a nice little bit of fluff but it didn't really change the nature of copyright at
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
> How is it the UK reg has the power to do this? I thought Giphy was a US company. Because both Facebook and Giphy are active in the UK market. If they don't want to be subject to UK regulation then they're free to stop doing b
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>Are there many examples of this extortion? Uber is definitely such an example - a lot of taxi companies disappeared because they couldn't compete with the scale of Uber with its subsidised prices. Now Uber have significantly increa
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
PeerTube itself is licenced under the AGPL. But that wouldn't stop a non-AGPL licenced solution from interoperating as the network is based on an open standard (ActivityPub).
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>And there's some question of whether FB followed the correct process. There are more than questions - FB was found guilty and fined for not following the correct process.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>I'm wondering why we don't start producing mRNA vaccines targeting this other variant now. People are developing mRNA vaccines for 'flu now. Moderna, Pfizer and Sanofi all have mRNA 'flu vaccines in clinical trials
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Hah, probably not! But it's a good rule of thumb that unless the full name is used then "[the] Council" means "the Council of the European Union" rather than any of the others. Maybe it's just me who finds th
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
> C++ and Fortran are in active development, but to the best of my knowledge have neither "mod teams" nor the heightened level of drama that Rust seems to attract. I don't know exactly how Fortran is developed, but C++ dev

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